It's always #Caturday somewhere

Exoplanet atmosphere characterization is built on a foundation of lab data and chemistry. We need more reaction rates, cross sections, & line lists, at a broader range of conditions than the Solar System. Got together with Earth/planetary scientists to comment on this: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Madrid rose garden in October #bloomscrolling

Seeking PhD candidates that want to do a thesis on exoplanet atmosphere retrieval + machine learning inference. Please apply by 31 October to Dr. Max Dax's and my shared project here: is.mpg.de/news/new-max... . Abstract for the thesis project is attached to this thread below!

🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩‍🔬⚛️ ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...

Saw a gold tree on my hike today

First week @esa.int and they're setting up for an open day which sold out in 6 MINUTES! Didn’t get any but I still got to go in the virtual ISS module.

Day 1 as an archival research visitor @esa.int in Madrid! We're looking at data from the Venus Express mission collected during the 2000s.

Dr. Anjali Piette of the University of Birmingham gave a wonderful talk on connecting sub-Neptune atmospheres to their interiors as a part of the BOWIE+ Seminar Series. The video is now available on Youtube. #exoplanets #astronomy www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHrT...

These autumn evenings...

Your Friday night weird Venus simulation plot... guess everyone gets dry patches sometimes 🙃

Productive hour spent at the #Moomin shop in #Helsinki

Most Finnish day: Suomenlinna, Fazer liquorice, and heavy metal #EPSCDPS2025 #EPSC2025

On my way to Helsinki for #EPSC2025 - one of my favourite places in the world! I'm giving a talk on Monday afternoon in the Venus atmospheric dynamics session

Your last saved pic is your philosophy

Several of our team members will be attending #EPSCDPS2025 in Helsinki next week to present our latest research including the latest NOMAD-UVIS ozone retrievals, optimising lander networks on Mars, exploration of the martian chlorine cycle and atmospheric dynamics on Venus.

Can't wait!

Just a little Thursday evening Lagrangian trajectory analysis. Venus causes me soooo many headaches by rotating backwards.

I think he wants something

Bank Holiday Monday #Scotland

Every day is #Caturday for some

Funky stuff happening with carbon monoxide under the clouds on Venus... 60 hours of 6 hourly simulation output

Compiling all day like a boss

#Caturday at Portobello beach

I found a 20 Jamaican dollar coin on my desk this morning and I have no idea how it got there

New hobby #roses

US Senator Alex Padilla was wrestled to ground after raising questions during US Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem's press conference, in a dramatic escalation of tensions in California. www.ft.com/content/93f1...

At this point it would be a relief to find out the world is actually being run by a shadowy cabal of space reptilians

share the money pigeon for 10,000 years good luck 💸🍀🤞

I need this cat !

Every year THE PEOPLE have to come in and fix the jury votes

This is my favourite Eurovision ever!! So glad the power ballad obsession seems to be waning

I can't believe Milkshake Man didn't make it through. They must be disqualifying AUS on purpose so they don't embarrass the continent by winning all the time. #Eurovision #ESC

Open University academic, Professor Mahesh Anand, is the first UK scientist to be given Moon samples from the Chang'e-5 China mission. @openuniversity.bsky.social #openuniversity #planetaryscience 🪐 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sub-Neptunes shrink and oxidize as they cross the radius valley and become rocky planets, in a new paper led by Collin Cherubim arxiv.org/pdf/2503.05055 #astronomy #science

Hot off the press! New GRL paper from our group, led by Anna Mackie: Circulation and Cloud Responses to Patterned SST Warming @agu.org @uniofstandrews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Under the Midnight Sun - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/226G5h9

I love submitting to the queue

Exciting PhD opportunity at @exeter.ac.uk: Forecasting Martian Dust Storms (funded by @ukspaceagency.bsky.social)! Please share widely! More details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

NEW: Trump cuts are threatening a standards laboratory who's work on atomic spectra undergirds the entire modern economy. The lab is run by just seven federal employees who have been paying out-of-pocket for their own coffee since 1973. www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...

Why isn't there a band called The Multilayer Perceptrons?

NIST's atomic spectra are a cornerstone of scientific research around the world. Laying off this research group does nothing but undermine fundamental science to no benefit! chng.it/vYdSkb9bHP

This is weird but I actually enjoy and actively read my university's weekly newsletter. @uniofstandrews.bsky.social achieved something no other uni has

Happy first #Caturday of spring. Fitz is sitting in a whisky crate

Whoa: The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft got a spectacular view of Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) as it passed close to the Sun. Look at that enormous, splintered tail! This comet won't be seen again for another 600,000 years. 🧪🔭 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

March 2025: The Month of Dust. Neat view of dust plume stretched from Gulf Coast to Midwest.

Mapping changes in temperature across the UK for every year from 1884 to 2024. Very obvious trend to warmer conditions across the UK in recent decades. Data: HadUK-Grid from @metoffice.bsky.social #smallmultiples #dataviz

FUNDED PhD PROJECT STILL AVAILABLE Using machine learning to help reconstruct changes in extreme rainfall over the UK and Ireland, working with partners in the @climatecocentre.bsky.social. Apply by 10th April. Funding available for British & Irish students only. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Double paper alert 🚨 Serious modeling efforts have been made to explain chlorine formation in the Martian atmosphere. From @openuniversity.bsky.social, Paul Streeter then shows how adding reactions on dust and ice surfaces brings Martian HCl closer to our observations: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024...